The kids at football camp laughed at The Great Pretenders, sure, but they really wanted to see Spider's Heisman Dance. Even with his frightful wigs and goofy songs, Jerry Sandusky couldn't top that. How he tried, though. Sandusky would wear a tacky, frizzy-black wig and belt out his rewrite of "Shout:" Slide a little bit faster now, hit a little bit harder now. Or he'd find a frilly red mop of hair and do "Chantilly Lace:" Ain't nothing in the world like a mean linebacker ... The Great Pretenders -- Sandusky and fellow Penn State assistant football coaches Joe Sarra and Bill Kenney -- tried everything to win the cheers of kids attending their...

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